Jorge Bucay Quotes

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

Jorge Bucay

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LifeSuccessHappinessChildren

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

John Barrow

LiveLongYouPaySureBills

New mobile-payment-based models are, in some ways, more secure. Because in a model like Circle's, for example, we never transmit your personal information or your financial credentials to the people you're paying.

Jeremy Allaire

PeopleFinancialYouInformationNew

When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.

Angus Young

OpportunityAustraliaLandUpReally

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

Sophia Myles

WomenMeAdvertisingStrongMedia

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Robert Duvall

GoodWomenWifePeopleCityTexas

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

Rita Coolidge

PeopleJazzRadioDecideFriendly

I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.

Masahiro Tanaka

GameLookSituationGoDoneTry

The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen.

Michelle Alexander

GreatJusticeGiftFaceReality

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

Mohamed ElBaradei

RichYouAirportEgyptPoorTwo

Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

Lorrie Moore

LivePeopleWantWayNeverCount

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Joseph Brodsky

HistoryArtPoetryPoliticalMore

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Dennis Weaver

ChangeBusinessEarthWillWayMake

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